"I must stop think­ing. I'll pre­tend that every­thing's all right and then every­thing will be." (from the nov­el "Veroni­ka De­cides to Die" by Paulo Coel­ho, Brazil­ian philoso­pher, 1921-1997)

Ki­no Daniel and Stephen Enile won the men's Open ti­tle while Aliyah Urquhart and Des­tiny Nar­cis se­cured the women's Open ti­tle as new cham­pi­ons were crowned when the fifth leg of the Trin­ba­go Beach Vol­ley­ball host­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion end­ed at Tur­tle Beach in Black Rock, To­ba­go on Sun­day.

De­spite all the prob­lems fac­ing the Crick­et Cana­da board, with the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) putting sanc­tions in place, chair­man of the Cana­di­an chap­ter of the In­ter­na­tion­al Mas­ters Coun­cil (IMC) Ak­shay Pandya has brought smiles to Cana­di­ans this sum­mer by get­ting the world to come and play at the IMC Over-60 World Cup.

Host Trinidad and To­ba­go Girls’ ‘A’ team, com­pris­ing Zara Walk­er, Anaya Roberts, and Tei­jha Welling­ton, cap­tured the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Ten­nis Con­fed­er­a­tion (COTECC) and World Ten­nis (for­mer­ly known as the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion–ITF) 2026 ITF/COTECC Un­der-12 Team Com­pe­ti­tion Sub-Re­gion 4 Tour­na­ment ti­tle on Thursday.

GROS ISLET – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors showed why they are con­sid­ered one of the favourites to win this year’s Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League with a dom­i­nant show­ing in their sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over the St Lu­cia Kings in Saint Lu­cia on Wednes­day.

Ji­air Nan­ton scored a first-half dou­ble as Trinidad and To­ba­go Un­der-14 foot­ballers se­cured a bit­ter­sweet come-from-be­hind 4-1 win over French Guiana in their must-win fi­nal round-robin match in Tier I Group B of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union Chal­lenge Se­ries at Cap Cana Sports City, Pun­ta Cana, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, yes­ter­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go cy­clist Kaylee Young bowed out of the women’s in­di­vid­ual sprint event at the round-of-32 af­ter she fell ill on the sec­ond day of the 51st UCI Ju­nior Track World Cham­pi­onships at the Sport Vlaan­deren Heus­den-Zold­er Velo­drome in Lim­burg, Bel­gium, on Thurs­day.

ROAD TOWN – St Vin­cent and the Grenadines reigned supreme among the men, while Bermu­da was crowned queens when the East­ern Caribbean Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Cham­pi­onships con­clud­ed in the British Vir­gin Is­lands over the week­end.

KINGSTON – An elec­tri­fy­ing per­for­mance from Keemo Paul en­sured that the Ja­maica Kings­men end­ed their home­s­tand in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League on a win­ning note with a dom­i­nant 51-run vic­to­ry over the St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots in Ja­maica on Tues­day.

​The above words are from a pow­er­ful Frank Sina­tra song—My Way—that is wide­ly utilised on many oc­ca­sions. Re­cent­ly, it has be­come a fu­ner­al salute of sorts for per­sons whose lives sig­nalled a “My Way” ap­proach, which, de­pend­ing on which pew you sat in at the church or ser­vice, could be con­sid­ered good or bad.

PUN­TA CANA – Ja­maica marched to their sec­ond straight win in the Caribbean Foot­ball Union’s (CFU) Un­der-14 Boys Tier 1 Chal­lenge Se­ries in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Tues­day to re­main on course to re­tain their ti­tle.

​Car­di­nals com­plet­ed a flaw­less cam­paign at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na, cap­ping off a dom­i­nant per­for­mance with vic­to­ries in the fi­nal two rounds to be crowned cham­pi­ons of the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League Un­der-16 tour­na­ment.